Ecology Flashcards
What is a energy pyramid?
A model that shows the available amount of energy in each trophic layer in an ecosystem.
What is a food web?
A model that shows many different feeding relationships among living things in a given area.
What is a decomposer?
Organisms which carry out the process of decomposition by breaking down dead or decaying organisms.
What is a food chain?
A model that shows one set of feeding relationships among living things.
What is a coniferous?
Plants that produce reproductive organs called cones.
What is a consumer?
An organism that eats other living things to get energy.
What is a biome?
A major ecological community such as grassland, tropical rain forest, or desert.
What is a deciduous?
A forest containing trees that lose their leaves each year.
What is ecology?
The branch of biology that deals with relations of organisms.
What is a cycle?
The movement of a substance through different reservoirs or stages.
What is a nitrogen cycle?
A process in which nitrogen in the atmosphere enters the soil and becomes part of living organisms then eventually returns to the atmosphere.
What is a biotic factor?
All of the living parts of an ecosystem.
What is a water cycle?
The continual movement of water between the land, ocean, and the air through predictable physical processes.
What is a abiotic factor?
All of the non living parts of an ecosystem.
What is a producer?
An organism that makes its own food.
